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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What are healthy sources of fats?






2. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






3. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






4. How many calories/gram is protein?






5. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






6. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






7. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






8. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






9. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






10. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






11. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






12. What is normal albumin levels?






13. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






14. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






15. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






16. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






17. What type of people need extra protein?






18. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






19. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






20. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






21. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






22. Sources of fats






23. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






24. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






25. What is RDA of protein?






26. When does BMR increase?






27. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






28. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






29. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






30. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






31. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






32. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






33. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






34. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






35. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






36. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






37. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






38. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






39. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






40. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






41. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






42. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






43. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






44. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






45. What is the function of vitamin E?






46. Where can you get more vitamin D?






47. Fats can lead to some medical problems






48. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






49. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






50. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?